mortgage

英 ['mɔːgɪdʒ] 美 ['mɔrɡɪdʒ]

mortal + engage 用生命来保证

mortgage 按揭

来自古法语mort gage,死亡承诺，来自mort,死亡，词源同mortal,gage,承诺，词源同engage,wage.比喻用法，即直到死亡也会履行的承诺。用于指古代的抵押资产以换取借款的经济行为，即现代意义上的按揭。

mortgage: mortgage: [14] Mortgage means literally ‘dead pledge’. It comes from Old French mortgage, a compound formed from mort ‘dead’ and gage ‘pledge’ (source of English gage and closely related to English wage). The notion behind the word is supposedly that if the mortgagor fails to repay the loan, the property pledged as security is lost, or becomes ‘dead’, to him or her.
=> mortal, wage
mortgage (n.): late 14c., morgage, "conveyance of property as security for a loan or agreement," from Old French morgage (13c.), mort gaige, literally "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Frech by hypothèque), from mort "dead" (see mortal (adj.)) + gage "pledge" (see wage (n.)). So called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails. Old French mort is from Vulgar Latin *mortus "dead," from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). The -t- restored in English based on Latin.
mortgage (v.): late 15c., from mortgage (n.). Related: Mortgaged; mortgaging.

2. Thousands of its customers are in arrears with loans and mortgage payments.: 有数千客户拖欠其贷款和抵押贷款还款。

3. The recent rebound in mortgage rates could snuff out the housing recovery.: 抵押贷款利率最近的回升可能会扼杀房地产的复苏。

4. The bank foreclosed on the mortgage for his previous home.: 银行取消了他先前住房的抵押赎回权。

5. I sometimes find it a strain to be responsible for the mortgage.: 我有时觉得背负这笔抵押贷款很有压力。